Uttar Pradesh Police arrested Shahi Jama Masjid president Zafar Ali for inciting violence during a mosque survey last November, which left five dead. The Uttar Pradesh Police on Sunday arrested ...

Sambhal has been tense after riots broke out on November 24 last year following a survey of the Shahi Jama Masjid, a Mughal-era mosque.

IMAGE: People arrives at Shahi Jama Masjid in Sambhal to offer prayers on the occasion of second Jumma of Ramzan on March 14, 2025. Photograph: ANI Photo The Mughal-era mosque in Sambhal has been ...

The court also instructed the stenographer to use the term "disputed structure" for the Shahi Masjid ... Court was hearing a petition filed by the mosque committee opposing an Archaeological ...

The whitewashing of the Shahi Jama Masjid in Uttar Pradesh's Sambhal started on Sunday, an advocate of the mosque side said on the day. Work is underway to whitewash the outside wall of the mosque ...

In 1878, the Allahabad High Court ruled that Shahi Jama Masjid in Sambhal had been used as a mosque for over 100 years, dismissing claims of it being a Hindu temple. The mosque committee now plans ...

Sambhal: A district court on Wednesday fixed April 28 for hearing a plea claiming that the Shahi Jama mosque here was originally a Harihar Temple. When the matter came up before Civil Judge ...

the president of the Shahi Jama Masjid here, into custody to record his statement in connection with the November 24 violence case. The Mughal-era mosque here has been at the centre of a major row ...

The Allahabad High Court on Monday directed the Archeological Survey of India to file an affidavit explaining why it cannot permit whitewashing of the Shahi Jama Masjid in Uttar Pradesh’s ...